Sunday, February 22, 2009

Ensure that I am on top of all of the feature freeze exceptions being requested, and help the team get the right work done related to those

Install Jaunty Kubuntu on my main desktop and use it for at least a week or so. I haven't tried Kubuntu in a couple of years, but I know that KDE in general and Kubuntu is particular have made great strides, so I want to give it another try, especially as it is part of the Desktop Team anyway.

[Edit] I'm going to wait until Friday or Saturday when the alpha 5 ISOs are available.[/Edit]

Install Ubuntu Jaunty on my eee. I'm already running Jaunty on it, but I want to do a clean install to ensure that Jaunty is working as well as I think it is.

Get the team working on goals, and start working on reviews. Doing reviews is a very important part of being a manager, I take them very seriously. I'm concerned that with shipping Jaunty, then Karmic UDS, all hands, etc... I may run out of time and not be able to do a great job with these if I don't start soon.

[Edit]Discussed this in our team meeting. Will ask folks to send me stuff in next team meeting, so hopefully I can begin assembling feedback early.[/Edit]

Get the two desktop new hires all set up. Ken VanDine started last week (yeah!). We have another new hire starting in a few weeks. As he lives in Australia, I will arrange for him to visit a teammate in London so that he'll have a week to synch up without timezone issues making it hard for him to reach people.

[Edit]Ken seems to be adapting quickly to Canonical culture. I've asked Maria (our illustrious admin) to help arrange for Robert in London.[/Edit]

Start a wiki to capture potential UDS topics. Nothing formal or time consuming, just somewhere so that I (or anyone really) thinks of something, we can park it somewhere and then get back to focusing on Jaunty.

[Edit]https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DesktopTeam/9.10UDSParkingLot[/Edit]

Make progress on my bug management tool. Though I am currently experiencing a very annoying issue with the launchpad API, none the less, I need to get some tooling together in order to help the team work on the right bugs, and generally manage the bug process in an efficient manner.

[Edit]It looks the launchpad team had to rollback an update to edge, which rolled back a critical bug fix. They will update it again soon. In the meantime, I can refactor the login piece to be a proper graphical component.[/Edit][Edit]The code started working again. I created a glade file for the graphical login part, but didn't start modifying the code. However, I plan to switch to adding filtering capabilities to the list view of bugs assigned to the desktop team.[/Edit]

Get a couple of talks together for all hands.

Get a good list together of what absolutely must be done for UI Freeze, and help the team accomplish those.